Carefully pour the hot oil into a glass measuring cup, leaving as many of the browned particles in the pan as possible.

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Meanwhile, competition between Affymetrix of Santa Clara, Calif. and upstart Illumina in San Diego led to rapid declines in the cost of SNP-measuring chips, glass slides on which tiny pieces of DNA are affixed like bits of Velcro.

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Boyden told him about his own work in neuroscience, and about a problem that involved glass tubes for measuring neurons.

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The only instruments capable of measuring such vibrations, though, were spectroscopes--meter-long glass-and-metal optical devices that used infrared light.

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The only instruments capable of measuring such vibrations, though, were spectroscopes--4-foot-long glass-and-metal optical devices that used infrared light.

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